Now that it has been announced that over 1 million people visited the new online Dead Sea Scrolls website (which by the way is VERY cool), I thought it would be appropriate to inform the public of the connection between the excavations at Tell es-Safi/Gath and the Dead Sea Scrolls:
Well, actually, there really is no connection, save for the fact that we are not too far from Qumran (in relative terms…).
But if we do ever find a collection of jars with scrolls in them at Safi, I’ll be the first to notify the public!
And also, I always thought of our team as the “Yahad” (usually translated as a “community” – more or less)…
:-)
Aren
